Twitter Users Quick to Point Out Issue With Statement Biden Made About Former President
Twitter users took issue with a statement made by President Joe Biden about late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre posted a statement made by Biden on…
Twitter users took issue with a statement made by President Joe Biden about late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre posted a statement made by Biden on Twitter, saying, “When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, eighty-one years ago today, it ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history.”
Podcast host Stephen Miller replied, “Hey who is that in the center stage portrait above the Oval Office fire place?”
The photo shows a portrait of FDR hanging above Biden’s head.
One user asked, “How long till FDR gets rewritten as a Republican?”
Writer Kimberly Morin argued, “Biden behaved exactly like FDR when he pushed his covid vax mandate. That’s actually probably even worse because the vaccines kill some people.”
Another user replied, “History will view your vaccine mandates the same way.”
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In Biden’s full statement, he remembered the “wrongful incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent.”
The statement continues, “And in a tragic miscarriage of justice, the Supreme Court upheld these immoral and unconstitutional policies.”
He explained, “The incarceration of Japanese Americans reminds us what happens when racism, fear, and xenophobia go unchecked. As we battle for the soul of our nation, we continue to combat the corrosive effects of hate on our democracy and the intergenerational trauma resulting from it.”
Biden concluded the statement, saying his administration reaffirms the “Federal Government’s formal apology to Japanese Americans for the suffering inflicted by these policies. And we commit to Nidoto Nai Yoni – to ‘Let It Not Happen Again.'”
In 2021, The Washington Post’s Annie Linskey published a profile on Biden’s Oval Office.
“President Biden has filled the Oval Office with images of American leaders and icons, focusing the room around a massive portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt that hangs across from the Resolute Desk. It is a clear nod to a president who helped the country through significant crises, a challenge Biden now also faces,” she wrote at the time.